Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, is expanding its partnership with Canada’s regional economic development agency PrairiesCan to help 25 more small and medium-sized businesses develop practical AI capabilities. The October 27 announcement adds C$2.5 million in federal support, bringing the initiative’s total federal investment to C$5.6 million. The expansion covers Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba,…
A convincing voice doesn’t tell us much about a tutor’s teaching. What can the learner explain once the conversation stops? That’s the question behind a recent study of voice and text tutoring in an online MBA course. Its findings give schools and product teams a reason to separate the experience they want to offer from…
Piq Energy’s Unlocking Flexibility Without Curtailment report explores how coordinated home batteries could help connect large electricity users to constrained power grids. Published on October 29, the report describes work with Base Power in which targeted battery dispatch relieved the modeled transmission overloads caused by a proposed 100 MW load near Fort Worth, Texas. The…
Accounting firms often grow by adding more people to serve more clients. Ravical has raised $17 million in seed funding to pursue a different model: turning the expertise of a firm’s best people into shared AI workflows that can be applied across its client base. MMC Ventures led the round, with existing investors Lakestar and…
On October 29, 2026, NYU Langone Health and OpenEvidence announced a collaboration that embeds OpenEvidence’s Patient Aware Clinical Intelligence in NYU Langone’s Epic electronic health record, extending the medical AI platform across a health system that handles 12.4 million outpatient visits each year. How the Epic Integration Works With the integration in place, a clinician…
Baptiste Bouvier is CEO and co-founder of Daptic, where he works to connect regulatory intelligence with product development. An MIT computer science and engineering graduate, his experience spans AI and autonomous systems research at MIT CSAIL, healthcare AI at Babylon Health, quantitative research at J.P. Morgan, AR/VR engineering at Meta, and consulting at McKinsey. His…
Ottawa-based Solink announced on October 29, 2026, that it has raised more than $100 million in new funding led by Vertu Capital, with material participation from existing investor Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and participation from new investors Golub Growth and Comcast Ventures. Solink said the investment will accelerate its expansion into AI Vision…
ConnectWise has launched RMM Agent, bringing AI-led endpoint investigation into the service ticket where technicians already work. Announced on October 29, the product examines a linked device, tests possible causes, and stages a remedy from a vetted catalog. Every device change requires a technician’s explicit approval. The launch announcement also introduces Voice, Teams, and Email…
Jason Wojahn is CEO of KMS Technology, with roughly three decades of experience building and scaling enterprise technology services businesses. He co-founded and led Thirdera before its acquisition by Cognizant, previously led Accenture’s global ServiceNow business, and held leadership roles at Cloud Sherpas and IBM Global Services. His work focuses on enterprise transformation, operating models,…
The beauty industry has spent the past few years talking about artificial intelligence. Smarter recommendations, virtual try-ons, skin analysis, and, more recently, AI-powered shopping assistants have all been presented as the next big breakthrough in retail. But we’re asking the wrong question, because consumers aren’t walking into a store or opening a shopping app looking…